Depends. Since this is security software it probably has a kernel driver component. I think in linux a 3rd party kernel module could do the same. But the community would not accept closed source security software, especially not in the kernel.

Four months of prison? It sounds like the man is disconnected from reality but hardly a real threat to society.

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Or just don't use it

I thought it was libvlc that covers that but no, it is indeed libavcodec which is part of the ffmpeg project. Does anyone here know the relationship between libvlc and libavcodec?

Piracy is not a real solution to the problem. Microsoft allows these sorts of things to exist in the background because they would rather lose out on some sales than lose market share.

On some days listening to a whole album start to finish just hits different

Do I understand correctly that this is not at all an exploit for Google Calendar itself, but just uses the Calendar share functionality to communicate to already infected hosts? That can be applied to pretty much any service with publicly accessible of sharable data though... I'd call this website out for clickbait but it seems like every tech news website is copy-pasting this same fearmongering article.

Elevation doing the heavy lifting in the final score.

Unless you have the ability to root it, does it matter? It's likely a completely custom, stripped down distro anyway.

Rough estimate of 72 cell panels at 2m² and 500W per panel puts this at a peak performance of 25kw. More than twice the average home installation.

Nintendo: "How about you don't play those old games and buy our new games instead."